Biology Fundamentals Quiz
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What unifying themes tie together the field of biology?

  • Hereditary information, energy processing, cell division, and metamorphosis
  • Cells, hereditary information, evolution, and energy processing (correct)
  • Genes, energy processing, atomic structure, and evolution
  • Atoms, hereditary information, metamorphosis, and energy processing
  • What is a key factor that allows organisms to move, grow, and reproduce?

  • Genetic mutation
  • Cellular respiration
  • Photosynthesis
  • Energy processing (correct)
  • What is the focus of biologists' study at multiple levels of organization?

  • Molecular biology, anatomy, physiology, and evolution (correct)
  • Chemical reactions, environmental changes, and human society
  • Social interactions, political systems, and economic structures
  • Geological formations, climate patterns, and animal behavior
  • What is a major focus of biologists' subdisciplines within biology?

    <p>Nature of their research questions and the tools that they use</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the immense diversity of life on Earth studied and classified by biologists?

    <p>From prokaryotic organisms such as archaea and bacteria to eukaryotic organisms such as protists, fungi, plants, and animals</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What distinguishes matter with biological processes from matter that does not?

    <p>Capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What makes the definition of viruses as living or non-living difficult?

    <p>They replicate only in host cells</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When did life originate?

    <p>At least 3.5 billion years ago</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who proposed the theory that living things have souls and embody both form and matter?

    <p>Aristotle</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the system of binomial nomenclature associated with the classification of living things?

    <p>Carl Linnaeus</p> Signup and view all the answers

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